Back of the Baseball Card take. Critics of the Javelin always cite the cost per missile putatively $50k per. It's the standard critique.What makes it so dangerous? A Two-Man Team can destroy an Up-Armored Tank a Mile and a Half away rain, snow, dark, fog, smoke any weather condition. That's a difficult calculus for potential adversaries. The System been slowly introduced to the Balkans, elsewhere, those with a history w/ the Bear. Georgia, Lithuania, Poland, Estonia. The Command Launch Unit is like another eMagin enabled device Joint Effects Targeting System with a twist. The CLU can be used for Surveillance until the situation demands otherwise. The Javelin is flexible, light and lethal. It is a Program of Record with escalating sales world-wide.

The Javelin’s Command Launch Unit—CLU—has a sophisticated infrared sensor with multiple viewing modes, including 4x optical zoom, a 4x green-lit thermal view, and a 12x narrow-vision zoom activated for targeting. The seeker in the missile even provides a fourth 9x thermal viewing mode. The CLU can, therefore, serve as a handy scanning device for the infantry. The thermal viewers on the Javelin need to be cooled off to function well, which theoretically takes 30 seconds, but might take a bit longer if you’re in Baghdad and it’s a breezy 120 degrees at noon. The system also incorporates multiple safeguards to avert or abort accidental launch.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/ukraine-now-has-americas-javelin-missile-and-russia-isnt-happy-83016